Maryles Casto
Board Member
Maryles is a pioneering travel industry executive and entrepreneur, with 48 years of experience in founding and leading companies to profitability. A former Philippine Airlines flight attendant, Casto created and helmed Silicon Valley-based Casto Travel, the largest privately owned travel management agency on the West Coast. She sold the company to Flight Centre Travel Group of Australia in 2019.
She is the founder and owner of Casto Travel Philippines, Inc., and is chairwoman and CEO of MVC Solutions, which provides travel industry businesses with back office support, accounting, and other services. Casto Travel was frequently ranked among the Top 100 Fastest Growing Businesses in Silicon Valley and San Francisco and was also ranked second in revenues in Silicon Valley women-owned businesses by the Silicon Valley Business Journal in 2006.
Maryles has served on many business, civic and philanthropic boards including the Commonwealth Club of California; was International Chair of the Committee of 200, an invitation-only group for the world’s most successful entrepreneur; and is a founding member of the Northern California branch of the International Women’s Forum. Maryles is the author of A Hole in the Clouds and lives in Boxford near her family.